Foxy Brown (1974)
Genre: Action / Crime
Duration: 94 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Jack Hill
Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas and Peter Brown
IMDb score:
6,5 (14.000)
Releasedate: 5 April 1974
Foxy Brown plot
"A chick with drive who don't take no jive!"
Foxy Brown (Grier) has found love with an undercover narcotics inspector, but when he is brutally murdered, she vows revenge on the gang responsible. By pretending to be a call girl, she discovers just how far the corruption has spread. A shattered war ensues as she plots to take out her friend's killers for good.
Actors and actresses
Foxy Brown
Link Brown
Steve Elias
Michael Anderson
Katherine Wall
Judge Fenton
Roy
Tedesco
Claudia
George
Reviews & comments
Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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Strangely enough, this film scores higher here than Coffy, which I thought was better. But this is quite a nice movie. A guilty pleasure, like the action films from the 70s and 80s with Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme and other expendables. Of course this is not a high-quality film with some forced acting. But somehow it belongs to this genre and gives the film a cult quality. Action, a beautiful woman, wonderful music and a simple story with 'one good and one bad'. Sometimes it shouldn't be more than that.
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Dievegge
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There was controversy around this at the time, due to the explicit violence, the amount of nudity and the coarse language, but by today's standards it's not too bad. It takes place in a neighborhood in Los Angeles with many underprivileged African Americans and with a gang that organizes drug trafficking and prostitution. Since the police and judiciary have ties to the crime bosses, the only solution is to take matters into their own hands.
To make Pam Grier appear more imposing, she is often shown in a frog perspective, with her victim lying on the ground. She changes outfits to go undercover, and wears large earrings. Her afro hairstyle was a fashion phenomenon in the 70s, but it also symbolizes the strength of a black woman. Behind the action and revenge scenes lie views on civil rights and emancipation. The Black Panthers appear in it. Male dominance is undermined through castration.
Antonio Fargas plays the skinny, addicted, characterless brother. “She's a whole lotta woman,” he says about Foxy. Also the leader of the gang is a woman, played by Kathryn Loder - Diana Rigg's evil twin sister. The name Foxy Brown says a lot about the character of the protagonist. The female rapper Inga Marchand made it her stage name.
The language used was very coarse for that time. There are racist epithets in both directions; ghost for a black person; honky for a white person. Willie Hutch's funky music fits the environment and period perfectly.
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FlorisV
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She's a whole lotta woman!
Still an important piece of film history, even though it may be in the pulp category: blaxploitation. The exploitation itself is not so bad. Apart from a few bare breasts here and there, where unfortunately we are not allowed to admire Pam's impressive facade (bam! ma'am) naked, there is not a lot of sex or action. But it is certainly not suitable for children. There is a certain griminess and rawness to it, this revenge film comes from the Death Wish era, the cynical 1970s, full of drugs, prostitution and at least as much corruption. Somewhat lit with quite funny dialogues and scenes here and there, like that bar fight.
Unfortunately, there is also clumsiness in the action: the blood looks like corn syrup and the hand combat looks clumsy.
The playing time is nice and efficient and the stylish Pam Grier naturally steals the show. With that enormous afro of hers, and the decoration of the entire film, it is occasionally a 70s fashion show, complete with Motown soul music. That datedness is also the charm because otherwise it is not very special.
A stronger story with a top cast, more budget and better direction and you get something like Jackie Brown. But it took too long again. This is a nice warm-up for the fans. And that movie cover is very colorful and stylish, why don't they make them like that anymore?
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